Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems
This paper presents a process for designing an integrated system of systems architecture applied to cislunar space. A needs analysis reveals that critical operations in cislunar space require communication, navigation, and domain awareness functions. These functions are used to design a trade space...
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| description | This paper presents a process for designing an integrated system of systems architecture applied to cislunar space. A needs analysis reveals that critical operations in cislunar space require communication, navigation, and domain awareness functions. These functions are used to design a trade space of physical constellations for evaluation. Payloads are designed for each of the functions to meet the requirements of cislunar space operations. Each payload–constellation combination is evaluated for cost and performance, where performance is measured as transmitter coverage, though future analysis can incorporate additional metrics using the same process. All the resulting architectures are then optimized to find the low-cost, high-performance Pareto-optimal options. The Pareto-optimal architectures are evaluated using evidential reasoning to find the optimal cislunar architecture. The optimal cislunar architecture results in a Moon- and Earth-based architecture for communications and space domain awareness and a Lagrangian architecture for navigation. This process can be applied to similar system of systems to design, evaluate, and optimize the architecture. This paper is derived from the author’s dissertation. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e353864e546847e8965bf3d24bc2e13a2025-08-21T00:00:05ZengWileyInternational Journal of Aerospace Engineering1687-59742025-01-01202510.1155/ijae/5560405Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of SystemsLaura Duffy0Jim Adams1Ronald M. Sega2Department of Systems EngineeringDepartment of Systems EngineeringDepartment of Systems EngineeringThis paper presents a process for designing an integrated system of systems architecture applied to cislunar space. A needs analysis reveals that critical operations in cislunar space require communication, navigation, and domain awareness functions. These functions are used to design a trade space of physical constellations for evaluation. Payloads are designed for each of the functions to meet the requirements of cislunar space operations. Each payload–constellation combination is evaluated for cost and performance, where performance is measured as transmitter coverage, though future analysis can incorporate additional metrics using the same process. All the resulting architectures are then optimized to find the low-cost, high-performance Pareto-optimal options. The Pareto-optimal architectures are evaluated using evidential reasoning to find the optimal cislunar architecture. The optimal cislunar architecture results in a Moon- and Earth-based architecture for communications and space domain awareness and a Lagrangian architecture for navigation. This process can be applied to similar system of systems to design, evaluate, and optimize the architecture. This paper is derived from the author’s dissertation.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ijae/5560405 |
| spellingShingle | Laura Duffy Jim Adams Ronald M. Sega Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems International Journal of Aerospace Engineering |
| title | Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems |
| title_full | Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems |
| title_fullStr | Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems |
| title_short | Optimized Design of an Integrated Cislunar Communication, Navigation, and Domain Awareness System of Systems |
| title_sort | optimized design of an integrated cislunar communication navigation and domain awareness system of systems |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/ijae/5560405 |
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